[ale] Getting SATA II configured performance

[Jeff Layton]

I thought I had but then I checked again and there they were.
They were pressed all the way down so I missed them. (slaps
forehead, pounds head on desk).

Thanks!

Jeff

> Have you checked the jumper settings on the drive?
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> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jeff Layton<laytonjb at att.net> wrote:
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>> Good afternoon sports fans,
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>> I bought a new Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H system
>> board and a Phenom II X4 920 (2.8 GHz) CPU. I've installed
>> CentOS 5.3 on an old IDE drive I have that servers as the boot
>> drive (for /). I've connected two Seagate ST3500320AS drives
>> to the board.
>>
>> When I run "hdparm -I" on them it reports only SATA I
>> speeds:
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>> % /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep SATA
>> *    SATA-I signaling speed (1.5 Gb/s)
>>
>> Both the board and the drives are capable of SATAII speeds but
>> I can't seem to figure out why I can't get SATA II signaling. I've
>> set up the SATA ports as AHCI but hdparm still doesn't see
>> the drives as SATA II capable.
>>
>> Any thoughts? Perhaps a cable problem (not sure of the age of
>> the SATA cables).
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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